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SEC, Big Ten 'advisory group' stands as coded threat to NCAA: Figure it out, or we'll go off ourselves
https://www.cbssports.com ^ | Feb 2, 2024 | Dennis Dodd

Posted on 02/03/2024 11:45:17 PM PST by Enterprise

The SEC and Big Ten delivered a coded, read-between-the-lines message to college athletics in a 259-word release on Friday: We got this.

Essentially, the two most powerful conferences on the planet told everyone else to step aside. They're going to figure out the future of college athletics themselves. They're done waiting for Congressional intervention or NCAA action.

The future of college athletics will be at least influenced -- but probably dictated -- by the SEC and Big Ten. They have most of the money, talent, recruiting, facilities and brands at their disposal.

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In essence, the two leagues are aiming to remodel what is left of the collegiate model. Don't like it? Well, you don't have to. If NCAA membership doesn't agree to their reforms, the SEC and Big Ten have the leverage to take their 34 teams and stage their own national championship. The networks and the market itself have told them that is possible, and it's a path which SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has already hinted at in the past.

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To: fastrock
National
Communists
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T-Shirt worn by Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, who was not playing due to injury, on the sidelines at the 1988(?) Orange Bowl - for about one minute.

SOMEONE (one suspects former Athletic Director Donnie Duncan) made a fast phone call to the coaching staff and got him removed to the locker room, but only after it was broadcast live on national TV. Maybe one of the coolest stunts ever done by anyone in sports, IMO.

21 posted on 02/04/2024 5:29:09 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Gnome1949
"With the “transfer portal” shuffle, college athletes are really not students at all. They are all free agents chasing the big money. The athletes continually transfer to the highest bidder college. College football is nothing a big fraud, is no longer “amateur” at all and even the coaches are becoming fed up with how rigged is the system."

Very true statement. Nick Saban being a salient example to your point.

22 posted on 02/04/2024 5:31:32 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: pepsionice

Euro style I like, my kids went to university in France, no sports, no greek society, just school. Cost about 1/2 what it is in the US and they stayed at home. A dang good education, no woke crap for the most part.


23 posted on 02/04/2024 5:46:10 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Gnome1949
The athletes continually transfer to the highest bidder college.

No, they are chasing money, but not from the colleges. They big money they are chasing is a pro contract. Sit on the bench as a second stringer at Bama or Georgia, or get field time at a second tier school like Kentucky or Ohio State. Or the other way around - give up field time at a Las Vegas for a shot at glory at Georgia. Hypothetically speaking, of course. No reference is intended to actual motivations for actual events.

24 posted on 02/04/2024 5:51:47 AM PST by PAR35
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To: DesertRhino

“The financialization of every single thing in America ruins our culture.”

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It does indeed. We are a very materialistic society.


25 posted on 02/04/2024 6:48:53 AM PST by Starboard
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To: pepsionice

I agree. That’s the way it should be. Go professional or play club sports. I’m beginning to think that’s the way high schools should be too. There are so many “club” sports in high school that many times the athletes put more emphasis on their club team than they do their high school team. Separate academics and athletics totally.


26 posted on 02/04/2024 7:51:04 AM PST by Runner4life
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To: Enterprise

Do consumers want to spend their Saturday afternoon watching Iowa State v. Kansas, or will they prefer to watch Michigan v. Georgia?

Would they prefer to spend their Saturday evening watching Texas v. LSU or Rutgers v. Wake Forest?


27 posted on 02/04/2024 8:44:04 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: DesertRhino

“The financialization of every single thing in America ruins our culture.”

We all aspire to enhance our financial situations. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that college football, along with everyone associated with it, shares the same desire and work ethic to improve their finances, just like you and I do.


28 posted on 02/04/2024 8:48:50 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: Enterprise

This was inevitable. Bye Bye NCAA.


29 posted on 02/04/2024 8:49:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DesertRhino
The financialization of every single thing in America ruins our culture.

Yep.

30 posted on 02/04/2024 8:50:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Enterprise

This is what happened with English soccer back in the 1990s.

The big clubs said “Screw the FA” and formed The Premier League.


31 posted on 02/04/2024 8:52:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gnome1949

“The athletes continually transfer to the highest bidder college.”

Each person in this country not only possesses the right but also bears the responsibility to place themselves in a situation that will increase their income and net worth.

Why would you expect a college football player to act differently?


32 posted on 02/04/2024 8:58:49 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: DesertRhino
Money has ruined college football. In the past it has something to do with the school. The financialization of every single thing in America ruins our culture.

"Always the dollars, always the f___ing dollars." - Casino

33 posted on 02/04/2024 8:59:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gnome1949

“ The total corruption of college football is a metaphor for the total corruption of our entire society.‘

One of many such metaphors, I’d say. Try to find something, anything, today in America that is not corrupt. Try to find something in America that is not a lie. You could think on it all day long, and not find anything at all.


34 posted on 02/04/2024 9:03:54 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: DesertRhino

Ha Ha!

Remember the term…they were using it not all that long ago…student-athlete.

Student-athlete LOLOLOL.

Minor League football player. In many ways, most actually, it says more about our colleges in America than about the players.


35 posted on 02/04/2024 9:09:24 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: Enterprise

“Coded” by #$%. The whole point of dropping to 4 super conferences is so they can walk away from the NCAA. They’re tired of the idiot punishments, the silly rules, and poorly executed tournaments. Now that they can fit into a power of 2 and handle the tournaments easy, they can walk away. And at some point they will. Maybe not this fight, or the next, but at some point.


36 posted on 02/04/2024 9:12:34 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Gnome1949

College sports should never have been amateur. The minute there was enough money to pay a coach twice teacher salaries they should have acknowledged it is a business and paid EVERYBODY. And the idiot rules the NCAA put in to maintain the fiction were slimy and did nothing but punish the people at the most risk. Now it’s honest.


37 posted on 02/04/2024 9:18:52 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: srmanuel

<>. . . if that means collectively bargaining with players and paying them for their athletic ability through revenue sharing ... well, that’s on the table, too. <>

Good. SEC, Big Ten football is the NFL’s farm league. I hope all SEC, Big 10 players get at least some compensation.


38 posted on 02/04/2024 12:36:29 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Enterprise
The BIG SEC should and will happen. The NCAA needs to manage, I dunno, lacrosse and maybe bowling. If their history of playing favorites should have been their end, their neomarxist creep makes Indy ineligible to maintain another single day in their charter.
39 posted on 02/04/2024 12:43:36 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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